Back after a long absence, I thought the best way to resuscitate this
blog was to share some news and informations about photography-related
activities I have been involved in over the last months:One year ago, Tommaso Bonaventura and Alessandro Imbriaco
proposed me to curate a new photographic project they were planning to
shoot together. The result has been an intense year-long work which led
to Corpi di Reato
(Bodies of Evidence), a journey through the Italian landscape in search
of signs of the presence of the mafia across the country, from north to
south.

From the text introducing the work:"For a long time the mafia has been perceived as a scattered,
multiform, almost invisible entity. After the 1990s and the height of a
sweep of bloodshed, organized crime in Italy slowly changed its
appearance and began to blend in with the political and economic fabric
of the country.Corpi di reato proposes to contrast this dispersion and restore a
tangible sightline of the mafia by retracing the marks it left around
the country. It also wants to show the void, the emptiness, that these
criminal acts provoked.

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As far back as ten years ago, it was said that the mafia was becoming
invisible, concealed behind a mask of normality. Corpi di reato
attempts to reproduce the mafia through images that create a visual
thread joining the slew of massacres that occurred twenty years ago to
the grey area where it thrives today".The gallery presented online is just a short selection of images from
the project (which is still in progress), where you can have an idea
also of the interaction we are experimenting between photographs, video
and archive stills and footage.Corpi di Reato will be part of the Fotografia Rome's International Festival, with a show at the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD) from October 18 to November 23.